[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Feature Requests-617979 ] need easy way of decoding a literal

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Feature Requests item #617979, was opened at 2002-10-03 09:00
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Category: Unicode
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 6
Submitted By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: need easy way of decoding a literal

Initial Comment:
Especially since PEP 263, we badly need a way of
turning a Python string literal into the appropriate
object.

The immediate need is to get the compiler package
working again, but I'm sure there are other places it
could be used.

I thought Martin already had a patch somewhere doing
this, but I can't find it.  Maybe he remembers?

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>Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-10-03 16:45

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How do you get eval to take notice of the declared encoding?

What I want is the functionality of compile.c:parsestr
available from Python.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2002-10-03 16:35

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Not sure what you are asking. eval() would certainly be an
easy way, no?
In any case, I'm not aware of an alternative.

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